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When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
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Top Cast
Robert Young
Richard Blake
Randolph Scott
Vance Shaw
Dean Jagger
Edward Creighton
Virginia Gilmore
Sue Creighton
John Carradine
Doc Murdoch
Chill Wills
Homer Kettle
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Rating
6.0/ 10
Release Date
1941-02-21
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Western
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User Reviews (2)
Wuchak
7/10
•11/22/2020_**Adventures while setting up the telegraph line on the Great Plains**_
As the Civil War breaks out in 1861, a former outlaw (Randolph Scott) joins the team wiring what is now Nebraska and Wyoming for telegraph service. Dean Jagger plays the exec...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•4/16/2023I wonder if Fritz Lang had these three imposed on him by the studio system or whether he chose them? Anyway, sadly the folks we have leading this interesting, pioneering, adventure don't really manage to raise the film from a rather procedural medioc...